posted 11-26-2001 10:32 AM PT (US) If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee... (Hardly seems worth it)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet (OMG...!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes. (In my next life I want to be a pig)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy, but I'm still not over the pig)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. (Do not try this at home .. maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (30 minutes... can you imagine??)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What can be so tasty on the bottom of the pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (I still want to be a pig in my next life... quality over quantity.)

Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm........)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing....)

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out.)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed. (Who knew...? Who cares!)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. (And what about pigs?)

Gladrial

posted 11-26-2001 12:24 PM PT (US)
My friend Tina sent this joke in an e-mail. Whew! She is real twisted. Hey she should hang out here with us. SpicyGem here is one for you unless you have it already.:)

Sweet Pea

posted 11-26-2001 12:46 PM PT (US)
All I wanna ask is "Can I be the pig?"Goodness... But I might be that pig when JJ gets here... hehe

posted 11-26-2001 03:06 PM PT (US)
Those are not all true. For instance, there is a species of monkey that practically LIVES for sex for the pleasure of it - their lives consist of little else (and they appear to be very VERY happy).

Also, with regard to the praying mantis thing: All of us, I think, have inhibitions when it comes to sex that we need to overcome in order to copulate. Male praying mantises, like so many other insects, are much smaller than the females of the species - and when you consider that they are very aggressive predators, you've got to imagine that a male mantis must have some rather serious inhibitions to overcome in order to get so close to a female.

Well, it just so happens that the part of the mantis brain within which those inhibitions are located happens to be in the mantis' head - so, by biting off the male's head, those inhibitions disappear (this is true for many other insects as well). I, being the kind of person who reads many books and magazines on biology, once read of a scientist who was trying, unsuccessfully, to get insects to mate. Another scientist who understood the little creatures a bit better, said, "Here's why," and the proceeded to rip the heads off of some males - and, suddenly, success. Nevertheless, I personally have had pet mantises mate w/out any "bloodshed".

Ouroboros

posted 11-26-2001 03:07 PM PT (US)
Oh yeah - Smacks once said, in the chat, that a male pig will ejaculate several cups of cum at a time.

I'm not even going to comment on that one....

Gladrial

posted 11-27-2001 08:47 AM PT (US)
Ok, Ok this has turned into a biology thread. So this makes a perfect place to tell of my sexual animal experiment that I conducted at the St. Louis zoo. This is terrible to tell what I did, but I made a gorilla fall in love with me. I hung out at the exhibit for a while. It was an outdoor natural habitat and I was up on the ramp overhead. My family was doing something else at the time so I decicded I would see what would happen if I flirted with the big guy. So I blew him a kiss and winked and then more kisses and he became docile like for a minute and just stared up at me for a while but then as I walked toward the exit to leave he went over and picked up a large something from the exhibit and threw it to show me how strong he was , then as I still continued to leave he went and sat on the side of the hill and pouted. I felt so bad for being such a tease. So the motto is don't be flirting for experimental purposes at the zoo,or it could make one sad Gorilla. It was such a "King Kong" moment for me. I never have told anyone about it. ( till now)muwahahahaha

Ouroboros

posted 11-27-2001 11:59 AM PT (US)
I look at gorillas and, if they were wearing pants, I wouldn't be able to tell male from female. I wonder if gorillas can tell male from female in humans when humans have pants on.

Perhaps it was more just enjoying the kind attention of a human, than a "falling in love" thing. HA! And maybe you were flirting with a girl gorilla!

Gladrial

posted 11-28-2001 07:48 AM PT (US)
No, really you could tell the difference by the way they acted. The female Gorillas stayed busy doing things. He had nothing to do so he had to be a male and he beat his chest for God's sake, only a male of the species would do that! ;p

RayBan - Gawd, what a thought! The good news is that all it'd take is a bag over the head, though. :-)

Gladrial

posted 11-28-2001 12:43 PM PT (US)
Sorry Ouro, it was just too funny not to say it. tee hee But Ouro, the one I saw didn't look like that so it was prolly a guy! Great find there, RayBan. ;) Either way guy or girl Gorilla, it wanted me to stay and have zug zug. hahahahahaha No really, I think it was the human contact he wanted. It amazed me.

Gladrial

posted 12-01-2001 09:42 PM PT (US)
Pic seems gone now...it was a female body with a gorilla head and she was wearing a pink bikini. hahahaha